Bible Dictionary

Gallim

Heaps, (1 Sam. 25:44; Isa. 10:30). The native place of Phalti, to whom Michal was given by Saul. It was probably in Benjamin, to the north of Jerusalem.

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

Heaps, (1 Sam. 25:44; Isa. 10:30). The native place of Phalti, to whom Michal was given by Saul. It was probably in Benjamin, to the north of Jerusalem.

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(fountains). This is given as the native place of the man to whom Michal, David’s wife, was given. (1 Samuel 25:44) There is no clue to the situation of the place. The name occurs again in the catalogue of places terrified at the approach of Sennacherib.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

GAL'LIM (heaps), the home of David's wife, 1 Sam 25:44; a village of Benjamin, Isa 10:30; now perhaps Khirbet es-Soma. Conder proposes Beit Jala.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

who heap up; who cover